Funkywinkerbeanization

Aside from some great parody strips, the best thing to come out of the recent “cancer” storyline in Funky Winkerbean is a term recently coined by a friend of mine: funkywinkerbeanization.  Employed as a noun, the term refers to a situation in which something that was originally lighthearted, fun and/or enjoyable later becomes laborious and bogged down in self-importance.  Here are a few examples of the word used in sentences:

• Many Dan Clowes fans are divided over the direction of his more recent work, but I’ve enjoyed his comics both before and after the funkywinkerbeanization of Eightball.
• I heard a couple of early Beatles songs on the oldies channel the other day and it reminded me of how regrettable the funkywinkerbeanization of that band was.

You get the idea…